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Ball Canning Giveaway!!

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On Saturday August 16, Jarden Home Brands will host the first annual International Can-It-Forward Day with special guest renowned chef and Bravo’s Top Chef judge, Hugh Acheson! A day to celebrate home canning, International Can-It-Forward Day allows food enthusiasts to connect via a variety of online and in-person activities.

New and experienced canners can participate in a live webcast, taking place on ground in Brooklyn Borough Hall Farmers Market, filled with canning demos where viewer questions will be answered in real-time by Chef Acheson and other experts while they learn the most popular (and delicious) home canning recipes. Twenty five farmers markets across the country will also be hosting Can-It-Forward Day celebrations!

In addition to the canning demos, there will also be segments on crafting, herb gardening and the brand’s new drinkware line! We will also be attempting a Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Mason Jar Mosaic.

To celebrate and for your support of this awesome event, Jarden Home Brands is offering this amazing giveaway of all kinds of cool stuff! I hope you win!!

The New Limited Edition Spring Green Heritage Collection Jars: These limited edition jars commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the Ball brothers’ “Perfection” Jar and come in a beautiful green tint. These are being produced only in 2014 and are available in both pint and quart varieties. We would offer a case of each size for review and also for giveaway.

Fresh Herb Keeper: Many new to gardening start with herbs as an easy first step. To savor the seasonings, Ball has developed a new product to keep herbs fresh for up to two weeks. 

Dry Herb Jars: A perfectly-sized solution for storing your dried herbs. Great for storing seasonings, spices and rubs too! Stackable, low-profile design makes pantry or drawer storage more efficient than old, mis-matched containers.

Frozen Herb Starters: Preserve your fresh seasonings in ready to use cubes filled with butter, oil or other liquid for easy and flavorful meal starters.

5 Blade Herb Scissors: Stainless steel blades to gently cut and evenly slice herbs like basil, parsley and cilantro. (Retail value: $9.99)

Ball Blue Book (not shown): Offering 125 pages that will guide you while you learn about preserving, this book provides information on equipment, instructions for the preserving method and recipes! 

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What an amazing prize package this is!!! 

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To enter this awesome contest, first leave a comment below telling me “your favorite item to can or preserve”. Then register that comment in the below widget (this is where the winner is chosen and sometimes it takes a couple seconds to load). There will be many other entries available once you unlock the comment entry. If you enter using any of the social media prompts, make sure you are really following in those forums as all entries are verified. In the past we have had to choose new winners based on those results. I don’t want you to miss out.

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Disclosure: Ball Canning provided me with these items as well as items for this giveaway. Giveaway prize package will be shipped directly from Ball Canning. All opinions are 100{5396afcf7ebcb011d88226d96591fa60d0bb5a6cac0179c8121d60c005c366a8} my own.

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  3. Tomatoes! We plant over 40 plants in the spring in the hopes that our countertops will be filled with wonderful Kansas tomatoes. I try to put up at least 100 quarts.

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  6. This is only my second year canning, but so far, my favorite thing that I’ve canned is peach preserves. Followed closely by my great-grandmother’s bread & butter pickles…

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  23. I haven’t canned much, but what I have done I have loved!! I have canned spaghetti sauce, salsa, green beans and tomato juice! Out of all of those, the green beans have been the best to me – fresh summer beans in the winter – you just can’t beat it!!

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  27. I have be teaching the art of preserving food for the last 2 1/2 years.I tell all my students to get the Ball Blue Book Guide To Preserving. It is wonderful to start canning with. I love to can I will omit I’m addicted to canning. What don’t I like to can. Some of my favorite recipes are Pie Filling, Hot Sauce, Curds, Pickles. Happy Canning to you all.

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  36. I plan to try canning for the first time this year… so this stuff would be great. I love salsas and hoping to do my own diced tomatoes to avoid metal cans.

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  37. My favorite canning project is peach raspberry jam, the peaches and berries around here are so good and make such yummy eating all winter.

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  50. my great Aunt’s Strawberry fig preserves – which have no real strawberries in them what-so-ever, but always taste like summer when I have a bite.

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  53. I would love to win trying to get my family on a healthy way of living now that we have to really get our health in control.. My daughter is also diabetic as well as I am so this would be great to do things ourselves an eliminate the bad into our own recipes jams etc.

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  63. i love to can anything at all, but especially sauerkraut! I taught food preservation in 4-H for several years and enjoyed it very much. Now my daughters are canning and loving it too.

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  73. I love canning preserves … mostly strawberry, but love trying new flavors each season! I have two grandchildren, 6 and 3, and would love to be able to pass along this knowledge to them so that it doesn’t become a lost art in our family tree!

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  99. I’ve never canned anything but I’d love to try! I saw someone mentioned salsa and that sounds like a great idea…my in laws have been giving us a ton of tomatoes in all different varieties (my FIL planted 10+ plants because he knows my son loves picking and eating tomatoes). We are so lucky!

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  110. I haven’t done much canning but I really want to!
    I would to can herbs and such.
    Plus I do love homemade jams. My parents used to make homemade raspberry jam every year with the abundance of raspberries that would grow in our garden.

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  113. I’ll try canning anything once – especially if it’s cheap or free ingredients…I have always enjoyed making jams and jellies but am really starting to get into sauces, relishes and mustards. Next thing to begin – putting up quarts of produce for the family!

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  115. Tomatoes and jam right now. I am going to try my hand at premade curries. This way I can send them to my daughter at college and make her life a little easier.

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  122. I love to can Blue Lake Green Beans! They are so delicious, just crqazy over them, enough that we eat them 2, 3 or even 4 times a week! Put up 81 quarts this year for the Hubby and me….

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  128. Tomatoes, for sure. I can Rotel type tomatoes, salsa, chili sauce,tomato sauce, ketchup, green tomato relish and pickles and tomato jam, which is a firs for me this year, the jam I mean.

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  129. Cucumber relish is my favorite! It is so much better than store-bought, I previously would have never thought relish was worth commenting on, but everyone LOVES it. It isn’t too hard to make either, with the food processor.

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  136. I love to can cherries. I make cherry jelly, cherry juice concentrate, cherry pancake syrup and cherry pies. I love to can. I’ve canned everything from beets to eggs to making my own vanilla. I love to do it all. I can in the early fall/harvest time and give the pretty little jars away at Christmas wrapped in some festive material and ribbon

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  140. Pear preserves would look beautiful in these green canning jars! And these would be beautiful for the centerpieces at my daughter’s wedding next July!!

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  145. Mt favorite item to can and enjoy in the wintertime is tomato sauce and tomato juice type sauces..It enhances my sauces and tastes great when it will snow out this way in the west this winter..brrrrr…but oh, my goodness I also love to can marrionberry jams and Oregon strawberry james and sometimes blue lake beans for winter consumption!

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  158. I love canning jams, tomatoes and tomato products, and pickle relish — usually made with zucchini. Relish is what I’ll be making on Can It Forward Day — plus some Carlton Plum Jam, if time allows.

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  163. I made prickly pear jelly and I canned cherry tomatoes. Also I love to make refrigerator oatmeal and I always use my ball jars. They have many great uses for food as well as crafting. I like to make pincushions with the small half pint jars, but they are hard to find and most stores just carry the pint jars. Cynthia Cameron, Sulphur, Oklahoma

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  169. The only thing I have ever canned is peach preserves, from peaches home grown in my friend’s yard in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York City! So that would have to be my favorite.

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  170. i can’t tell what is my favorite item to can. it all depends on my garden and the many blogs i read. i try to can something new each year, and this year i am trying all types of ketchup flavors. i can fruits in all forms, vegies in many combinations. soups, stew starters, meat.

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  171. I was just telling my neighbor as we were picking tomatoes, that I would like to start canning but I have no idea where to start. This would be an excellent starter pack. I have so many tomatoes this year I would love to can some.

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  177. I love canning berries, tomatoes, cucumbers, most any vegetable from my garden. I have been canning for the last 46 years and have always used BALL canning jars.

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  182. I love home canned tomato juice but I don’t think it would look as pretty in the green jars. Pickles on the other hand would be tasty AND beautiful in them. 🙂

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  186. Raspberry jam. As a child, my grandmother and great-grandmother always made the jams for the family. I would pick raspberries and blueberries for them in the summer and hang around in the kitchen while they cooked the berries. My favorite childhood memories involve these two remarkable women who were a big influence in my life. My great-grandmother’s house always smelled of berries and apple pie. My heart sings when I think of them.

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  199. I like canning fresh vegetables or fruit from my own garden. I make Pickled Okra, Fig Preserves, Orange Marmalade – whatever I can harvest and can.

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  204. my favorite thing to can is watermelon rinds. peeling the skin off a watermelon and cubing the rind is a labor of love but it makes an awesome sweet pickle. my friends and family save their rinds for me, and i love that it i can make this treat from what would otherwise have been trash (or hopefully compost). if you haven’t made it before make sure you give some to your grandparents and great aunties and uncles; mine just light up to have a jar of this long forgotten summer treat from their childhood.

    If its too sweet for you, their is an awesome sweet and sour watermelon rind recipe that is equally delicious.

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  209. My late father’s secret family recipe for Bloody Mary mix. He grew 6 specific kinds of Heirloom tomatoes and combined them with eleven ingredients to make the most amazing Blody Mary mix. As a teenager I remember thinking it was a such a total drag to have to help with the whole thing. Now I’m so grateful I did; great memories, and canning it every year makes me feel like he’s still with us. (And it’s damn good!) Cheers!

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  218. I have memories of trying to learn how to make jelly when I was a young Girl Scout. These days, I am so into pickles of all kinds. I would love to try my hand at making both jams/jellies and pickled veggies of all kinds, although not necessarily in the same jar….LOLOLOLOL!!

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  222. I just finished harvesting my apple tree and have apples galore! So, I’m ready to take on a new challenge – canning apples anything and everything!

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  232. I don’t do very much canning but I use the mason jars everyday for making fresh almond milk and healthy drinks. love, love, love the new green jars!

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  236. HOLY MOLY!!! i’m deep in the canning season right now, and this being my first year, i sure could use EVERYTHING in this prize pack. right now though my favorite thing to can are my heirloom brandywines. i’ve been making every concoction known to man with them. right now i have a bushel i pureed simmering on the stove that i am turning into all purpose pizza sauce! a little parmesan, oregano, basil, garlic, sugar, salt, red pepper flakes, onion and BAM!! heaven. i had a party last night that i pulled a batch out from last week a simmered italian sausages in all day. the best sausage subs EVER!

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  249. We just processed 41 pounds of plums into jam, butter, jelly and syrups! Next is apples and pumpkins and I can’t wait to can it all up! But I grew up in Montana and my all time favorite thing to can was chokecherry syrup with my great grandma! I still have a few jars left that I’m cherishing!

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  257. This is going to be my first year really getting into canning. Moved here and inherited something like 4 or 5 apple trees, plum trees and pear trees. So I am going to have a lot of canning to do this fall.

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  271. love to can green beans…but want to pickle some carrots….did beets already
    wold love to have this set to use…great of ou to give them out!

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  298. I usually can zucchini relish, dilly beans, jams, and one year dilled green tomatoes. This year I hope to add tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, and maybe some salsa

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  307. I’m new to the McMinnville area, vegetable gardening and canning. I have TONS of GMO free, organic tomatoes growing this year! So Tomatoes would be it this year! I would LOVE to win this gorgeous package!

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  312. Watermelon rind preserves just like my granny made. My college age daughter and her friends make them too! So good on a biscuit with coffee in the morning.

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  317. I’m just starting to learn about and do some canning. My biggest foray so far has been strawberry-pineapple jam and blueberry jam. I’ve also done some dill pickles but I really want to do more and learn more about it.

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  319. I’m kinda new to the canning. This past year I opened a produce stand and I can not stand waste. With that said I have canned many things. I guess the most unique and popular thing I have canned is Sweet Zucchini Relish.

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  358. As a new preserver and canner I currently like to can my overflow of fruits and vegetables from the market. I use my dehydrator to save space and can them up!

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  360. I have only canned peaches, and that was one time. I really want to have a garden, especially an herb garden, so this is really exciting to me. I want to try this.
    Thanks!

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  364. I like to can caramel apple butter. I give it to friends and family throughout the year, and everyone loves it. It’s a very easy recipe from the Ball Blue Book.

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  368. I LOVE canning homemade chicken soup in my pressure canner. One quart stuffed full will feed my family for a whole dinner if I add biscuits at the last minute. After that, canning jam is my favorite. 🙂 I love those green jars. Thank you for the giveaway.

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  370. I love making strawberry jam, as well as other fruit jams! Learned from helping my mother in the 1950’s. I also like to can tomatoes and pickles. We had a big family and an even bigger family garden! My parents grew everything from tomatoes to raspberries! We had apple, peach, and pear trees in the backyard. Dad would make a trip to downtown Cincinnati to the cattle stockyard every Spring and bring home a big garbage can full of cow maure. Our veggies and zinnias were HUGE !

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